What is re-operative parathyroid surgery?

Dr. Jamie Mitchell, Medical Director at the Norman Parathyroid Center, answers your questions about re-operative parathyroid surgery.
Parathyroid surgery can be very tricky. Surgeons who don't do more than 50 parathyroid operations per year have a failure rate of about 15%. There are only a few surgeons in the world who do more than 50 parathyroid operations per year, and their failure rate is about 8-10%. We perform over 3500 parathyroid operations per year and our failure rate is about 0.5%. About 18% of the parathyroid operations we perform every year are for people who had a failed parathyroid operation somewhere else. We do 2 or 3 of these re-operations every day. Learn more here: www.parathyroi...
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